couple pics... post what your currently cutting

[Old Greenhorn]

It's a pretty special process and requirements for that material. It is required for use in the watershed for septic fields and drainage's. Barge is one of the few certified suppliers as far as I know, especially in these large quantities. He can tell you more about it, I have already spoken at the extent of my knowledge. ;D :D

[mudfarmer]

Cut some pine to mill but now back to thinning and TSI'ing. About 8 months ago signed a contract with best worker we have ever had. Never calls in sick, always in the woods before I am and works like a rented mule. Not only has increased efficiency and output but has made initial thinning and harvesting from 100+ac possible on a time scale not measured in multiple decades.

Still getting used to working with a partner and getting kinks out of work flow but general pattern is familiar to you all: cut 'em down, buck 'em up, winch 'em in and skid 'em out



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Walked a 50ac lot that borders back side of ours that is up for sale, got excited by this big beech but woods she ded

[cutterboy]

RED OAK


 
I finally got to cut a red oak today. I have been trying to log some oak since mid June but something always comes up that needs to be done first and the oak gets pushed back. This morning I went to the woods and selected that tree and cut it down. It got hung up at first, but after 10 minutes it came down by itself.


 

 
I cut four logs out of it and hauled them to the sawmill.


 

 

 

 

 

 
Still in the woods is a 4 or 5 foot log with a crotch that I will probably cut live edge slabs from. Also there is a lot of firewood to pull out.


 
Time to saw red oak lumber :laugh:

  All the best.....Cutter

[treemuncher]

I recently finished up grinding/mulching about 2000 linear feet of brush piles with mixed hardwoods, cypress and white pines. Piles were made with an excavator prior to installing a new water main. Whatever was in the piles, including furry or scaly critters, stumps, trees in excess of 30" diameter, was turned into mulch. Nice little job that smelled great when I was done due to all of the pine.



 

 

 

 

[Southside]

Nice work!! 

[cutterboy]

WOW! Treemuncher, the end result looks great.

[Maine logger88]

Looks good treemuncher! I'm just finishing up this thinning here's a spot I cut all the half dead cherry out of and whatever maple I had to cut to get the cherry there is quite a few little maples left that should make some nice logs and firewood someday

 Just pulling the loader out of the set so a truck can get hooked on. If anyone ever has plans to get a trailer mount loader with pull through and slasher get a 748 size skidder the 648 will do it but barely and that's on good ground 

 

[mike_belben]

Find an old convertor dolley rotting away in the back corner of a wrecker or transport company yard that does a lot of doubles.  Weld a post with some grip to the front and then you will only need to pull it without lifting the landing gear up.

Just be sure your brakes work.

[Skeans1]

Find an old convertor dolley rotting away in the back corner of a wrecker or transport company yard that does a lot of doubles.  Weld a post with some grip to the front and then you will only need to pull it without lifting the landing gear up.

Just be sure your brakes work.

Or find one from an old yarder they were made for the task of off highway work.

[mike_belben]

I wonder if you could scooch the machine along by itself on one?  Will the grapple reach far enough to steer the dolley?  Or bump it with a log maybe?

[Maine logger88]

A dolly setup to grab with the skidder would work good in that situation I bet! No the grapple on the crane only just barely reaches the other side of the limber so you couldn't steer it. You might be able to scooch it along by pushing with the heal tho. 

[Maine logger88]

Its surprising how heavy it is on the tongue we tried moving it with my fathers 315CL excavator and it did it but barely. The guy I bought it off had a 748h which handled it fine

[mike_belben]

Could you spin the slasher around and bring the grapple in closer to the house to move some tongue weight back onto the tandems?

[Maine logger88]

The slasher can't be spun because the hoses aren't long enough but I could try putting the boom back further when height isn't an issue. Sometimes when going in a over grown road I have to move it in travel position which is laying the heel in the delimber then it really makes the ole 648 unhappy 😂

[mike_belben]

Yeah ill bet.  Whats a knuckleboom weigh on average?


Ive seen grapple skidders road their KBs 5 or 6 miles to the other side of some acreage across from me before.  You can do about whatever you want out here.  Not too long ago i helped a kid who roads a big 4wd deere with duals + a battwing cultivator from westel TN to jamestown tn.  Said its an entire day.  Thing had racing slicks to show for it!

[doc henderson]

not yet, but will some day.  went to a friends house for a cookout.  he had to show me this little act of nature.



 

dead cottonwood fell on top of a walnut tree, and they have been living this way for 3 years.  will help him take it down someday.  

[BargeMonkey]

I moved one of these guys with a grinder a few weeks ago, its does a nice job I've got to say that. 


 

 

 

  this is the 3rd time hes been back to this 600 acre piece, over by Cooperstown where money is no object, hes got a 4-5 day minimum, moving included, fuel surcharge and his hotel paid for, I was sitting down when I asked him how much a week and it still hurt.  

[Walnut Beast]

Nice. What size was that mulcher CMI ?

[Walnut Beast]

Probably 10-15k for 4 or 5

[mike_belben]

Wow.

[BargeMonkey]

I've lived in this county most of my life, if you dont live up this road you dont go there, the hills have eyes out here, notorious for dog fighting / chicken fighting, its methed up. Told the logger to bring his chains and anything valuable home, neighbor who lives in sight told him the same thing, if any of you guys see 10 chain chokers and 2x sets of 24.5 Trygg ice chains for sale on CL in a few weeks this is where it came from.


 

 The guy who used to buy all my wood at Wagner went someplace else, he paid AWESOME for that ash today, dont cut the best maple but that VX and #1-2 stuff is paying well, the high end veneer market just isnt back yet but middle of Oct yes.


 


 hows that for a landing ? I've got to measure it, I bet it's over 1/8 mile long 😆


 
I kind of repoed some iron for the Frenchman yrs ago, the guy was decent about it and didnt take a bath, Clem got paid, I got that ☝️ I almost sold it to Coxys buddy, still kicking myself. I bought that 330 class excavator cheap and that engine will fit and low hrs, kind of killing 2 birds with 1x stone, she needs to do another 5-600 trees and march on the trailer for the last time. That 200C ProPac is the best value of the 3 but I've got to buy it cheap 😆


 I had said in a previous post that my competion has fallen short on wood this yr and calling everyone he can, the other logger I'm friends with who cuts 3x the wood I do also cant stand him. I've now backing every little guy who sells wood I know in the area that's decent, they want 1-2, getting 4ld, start selling wood, welcome to NY. 😆👍

[BargeMonkey]

Probably 10-15k for 4 or 5

Keep going 😆 This guy has a FLEET of new of forestry equipment, he gets in the cab and goes, he was working down here doing a clearcut and went 18hrs a day in a 522B like a savage. 

[mike_belben]

Thats my kinda road barge.  Shootin starts at dark. 

[Skeans1]

 

 
Welcome to the jungle the brush this year is unreal it sure makes it fun trying to miss big old stumps.

[ehp]

well where Im cutting I donot want to take pictures , I donot want to remind myself on how lovely it is cutting in the worse vine infected place on earth . It is brutal . First hitch I had to stop 3 times and clear my winch driveshaft as the vines wrapped around it so bad I was worried it may take the seal out on the winch . Lets just put it this way , its so bad Im cutting live ash . Its so thick the bore could not find the trees . Hoping to be out of here this week coming. Everything has some form of poison in here , vines 6 inches in diameter and the trees are covered in them